A selection of work between 2010-2020

CREOLE FEAST: legacy (COMING SOON)

Meet the unheralded black chefs of New Orleans. hands in the pot tells their story, reframing the story of American culinary tradition by exploring the ingenious contribution of black cooks, who brought traditional food-ways from West Africa to the New World and created the iconic, enduring Creole cuisine.

| A documentary film in progress |

DAKAR AFTER DARK (2024)

oNion (2018)

5:29mins | Oakland | Azha Luckman x Rewina Beshue

A memory-filled visual response to a personal/community tragedy. Azha Luckman recounts a friendship and how she and the community are dealing with the tragedy.

Somebodynobody (2015)

2:51min | Mission, San Francisco | Jodie Smith x Preston Davis

SOMEBODYNOBODY is a meditation on black mental health, rooted in concepts of safe space, beauty, and identity.

palaver. (2016)

… on repeat

3:16mins | 38°54′32″N 123°41′35″W | Rugayyah Alzona Albaari x Joshua Somolu Farria

Zincgraff ( 2012 )

9:13mins | San Francisco | Preston Davis x Tatasha Lee

A reclusive and hallucinatory painter manages to hold on to the memories of his dearest friend and departed love just long enough to conclude his portrait of her.

The Boy Beneath the Bandages ( 2010 )

7:53mins | Santa Clara | Shaqueil Hall

Garrett is a young boy struggling with Epidermolysis bullosa, a rare skin disease to which blisters cover the body and disallow the skin to adhere to his body, leaving him to wear bandages from the neck down for the rest of his life. However, not letting his disease defeat his dreams, Garrett lives and breathes basketball, hoping to one day be a pro basketball coach. Wanting to be a regular kid, he pursues to play a friendly game with the neighborhood kids. His mother, Deborah, on the other hand, sees him and his disease much more fragile than anyone else, and ultimately not letting him out of the house, her overprotective demeanor catches them, leaving Garrett defeated.